'Cloud storage no threat to SMB NAS systems'

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud storage services do not pose threat to small and medium-sized business (SMB) network-attached storage (NAS), according to a survey.

The survey, conducted by market research firm In-Stat, also shows that about 70 per cent SMBs that use cloud-based services today also use onsite NAS systems.

Only 10 per cent of enterprises are considering the public cloud as a place to store even their lowest tier of data for archive purposes, according to another survey.

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Asked about storage-as-a-service, 87 per cent of the respondents indicated that they had no plans to use the public cloud, 10 per cent said that they would use it, and 3 per cent indicated that they weren't sure.

While SMB NAS represents a smaller portion of the total NAS market, SMB NAS is expected to grow to more than $2 billion in 2015.

“As the market has matured, the definition of NAS has taken on additional aspects. In particular, system management software has evolved into the most important feature of NAS adoption for several reasons, but primarily because it simplifies the user experience to set up and manage NAS products,” Norm Bogen, vice president of In-Stat Research, said in a statement.